CV Personal Profiles Create An Instant Image Of Your Skills

Creating CV Personal Profiles

CV personal profiles are a good way to create an immediate impression in the mind of the person reading your CV. You would normally place a profile similar to the examples below, immediately after your name and address details at the top of the page so that it is the first thing that the person reviewing your CV actually reads.

Below I'll tell you what NOT to include and give you 7 good examples to start you off.

Use the heading 'Personal Profile' or just 'Profile' or even 'Personal Summary' and make sure it is kept fairly brief so that it will be read. Don't try to use 'buzz words', instead think in terms of key words that identify important aspects of your skills and abilities.

What you are creating is a 'thumb-nail sketch' that is memorable and defines in a few words who you are, what you can do, the level you work at and the sector experience you possess. A self description like the examples below can also be a valuable addition to your career change CV or adapted as a form of self introduction in an interview.

CV Personal Profiles allow your potential employers to learn something unique about you and your career, as well as get a good feel of your communication skills.

What NOT To Include In A Personal Profile

To write an effective summary, you should first understand what information should NOT be communicated in your resume.

While CV Personal Profiles provide insights into what is unique and competitive about you, it is not a place for you to indicate any personal information that does not relate to your career. Information such as ethnicity, marital status, sexual orientation, religious beliefs and affiliations should be left out altogether. While descriptive of who you are, this information is not relevant to your potential employer in order to pre-screen your qualifications for their opportunity. Additionally, CV personal Profiles should not contain previous professional experience, except in the way that it can clearly demonstrate how such background can be of value in your future career development.

7 Examples Of CV Profiles To Help You...

These 7 examples of CV Personal Profiles should give you some good ideas about how to create your own:

1. A determined and analytically minded B2B Business Development Manager with proven commercial judgment; strong strategic capability, leadership and general management experience plus a track record of managing global business units and multi-functional teams involving commodity and capital goods products in the technology sector. Driven by challenge and focused on results, excellent interpersonal and communication skills provide the ability to operate effectively at all levels and across all disciplines including scientific and commercial.

2. Dynamic, results driven and enthusiastic sales & marketing professional with proven ability to deliver innovative marketing concepts and strategies. Conceptualizes and develops appropriate marketing solutions to benefit customers, increase market share and overall sales. Possesses strong presentation, negotiation and closing skills plus ability to make strategic decisions and react rapidly in conditions of high competition.

3. A dynamic and reliable individual with 10 years of experience as both Receptionist and Admin. Assistant both in UK and abroad. Excellent organizational skills and telephone manner, tact, diplomacy, and communication skills; experienced in dealing with customers and high level workloads within strict deadlines. Mature, energetic and hard-working; able to maintainconfidentiality in sensitive matters and display excellent judgement and initiative when required. Advanced knowledge of all Microsoft packages and always keen to learn. Works well under pressure and without supervision both individually and in a team. Able to carry out detailed instructions to the letter.

4. Experienced IT Support Team Leader. Keen, conscientious, hard working, very reliable and a good timekeeper. Enjoys meeting and working with people. Good communication skills; straightforward, and positive with a friendly disposition, able to work well either on my own or as part of a team. Adapts readily to any environment and uses technical skills to contribute positively to the organization.

5. An accomplished Project/Programme Manager (PRINCE2 Practitioner) with a proven track record of delivering significant multi-million pound IT Infrastructure, Local Government and Construction projects within the public & private sectors. Defines resources and schedule for programme implementation requirements and plans full project life cycle deployment. Creates strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning. Plans and schedules project deliverables, goals, milestones.

6. Senior European Sales, Marketing and Business Manager with extensive category management experience including contract negotiations and management of change. Gains rapid understanding of diverse business issues and creates innovative management solutions. In-depth knowledge of the Consumer Electronics market and related supply chain. Operational fluency in English, Dutch and German.

7. An energetic and enthusiastic graduate with exceptional work ethic and demonstrable ability to complete a wide range of activities requiring clear communication, excellent organisational skills and attention to detail. Works well under pressure, ensuring the smooth and efficient completion of allocated tasks. Now seeking challenging and interesting role ideally in events/marketing/PR industry.

In each of the CV Personal Profiles you will have noted the use of strong positive descriptive adjectives that quickly create a mental image of the person; you will also see their areas of expertise concisely defined. If you are struggling to find the right words to describe your personality I have produced a list of personality describing adjectives that you will find useful and helpful when you are writing your CV, when preparing cover letters and when you are getting ready for your interview.

Just remember that a self description similar to the examples above may also be used as part of your career change CV or even adapted for use as a form of self introduction in an interview; and don't worry if the CV Personal Profiles sound a bit strong, you are there to sell yourself, hard.

A Great Networking Tool Too...

CV personal profiles are not just a good way to create an immediate impression in the mind of the person reading your CV, they are also a useful definition of you that you could adapt as an 'elevator pitch' or quick introduction when you are networking for jobs. You would normally place a profile similar to the examples above, immediately after your name and address details at the top of the page so that it is the first thing that the person reviewing your CV actually reads; that way it sets their expectations and is a very important item to get right.

For more help with creating your CV Personal Profiles, Skills section and the best way to layout your CV go to CV Writing for all the help you need.

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